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NPR staffers discuss what makes a good summer camp movie, in this week's installment of our regular series, Cineplexity.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, already being mentioned as a possible 2016 presidential hopeful, responded to a question about the Earth's age with, "I'm not a scientist, man." While he sits on the Senate's science subcommittee, Rubio called it a "dispute amongst theologians."

In the summer of 1965, Bruce Miroff joined hundreds of white northern college students in a voter-registration campaign called SCOPE. This summer, a reunion was held. Nick Miroff sends an audio montage of the group's recollections.

Medicare generally covers respite care only when a beneficiary is in hospice, although some special needs Medicare Advantage plans may be of help.

The singer/songwriter is one of the 2024 Kennedy Center honorees. In 1996, Raitt spoke to Fresh Air about about the musicians that inspired her, including Mississippi Fred McDowell. Interview

A network of families riddled with Alzheimer's has given scientists a unique window on the disease. But the group's future is uncertain amid funding cuts by the Trump Administration.

Chris Camponovo, a former State Department lawyer, examines what a multinational prisoner swap says about the Trump administration's third-country deportation strategy.

The author Kurt Vonnegut's estate has sued to challenge a Utah law that allows school districts to ban books from their libraries. Supporters of the law say it keeps pornography out of schools.

Border czar Tom Homan met with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Tuesday. Homan takes over from Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, overseeing ICE operations in the state. Do things look any different on the ground?

With an appearance at a Turning Point USA event at a megachurch Arizona, President Trump is hitting the campaign trail in front of a friendly crowd at a time his approval ratings are at record lows.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with journalist Paola Ramos about President Trump's gains among Latino voters in 2024 and how ICE operations across the country could effect that support.

My Unsung Hero is a new series from the Hidden Brain team about people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. When Wendy McDowell was age 8, she was left stranded at an airport.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has signed off on updated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that target the original virus and the omicron subvariants.

JP Morgan Chase is buying the troubled lender First Republic. Thousands of people are still trying to flee the fighting in Sudan. Hollywood writers are preparing to go on strike.

As Founder and Chairman of Barnes & Noble, Leonard Riggio steered it through the proliferation of free information in the Internet age. As he retires, he tells NPR's Lynn Neary about his long career.

The FBI has identified the British man it says took hostages at a Texas synagogue. The pace of omicron infections may be subsiding. Britain's prime minister is fighting for his political life.

We look at the season openings of Major League Baseball, the NCAA tournaments and all the latest sports news.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., said that President Biden ended negotiations with Republicans on an infrastructure deal Tuesday, abandoning talks over one of his top priorities.

Morning Edition presents a montage of some of the musicians who died in 2022.

There's a joke in LA that everyone — from your dog walker to your dry cleaner — is writing a screenplay. C.W. Neill pokes fun at that romantic Hollywood craft in This Movie Will Require Dinosaurs.

There's a landmark legal battle being waged between financial regulators and Binance, one of the largest crypto companies in the world. And it may determine the crypto industry's future.

OPill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription, is shipping to retailers nationwide.

Palestinian citizens of Israel say they live in an atmosphere of fear, facing a backlash from Israeli society and arrests by authorities since the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel last year.

NPR speaks with Ukrainian journalist and activist Maksym Butkevych, who volunteered for the Ukrainian armed forces after Russia's full-scale invasion and became a Russian prisoner of war.

Four weeks after a similar event in the nation's capital, some of the president's supporters who came to protest a "stolen" election clashed with counterprotesters into the night.